UNCOVERED: 3 | History Defined

Resignations of Case and Moore prompt difficult questions for Garrick members

Both men U-turn within 24 hours of refusing to resign as colleagues and critics express dismay at club’s continuing lack of diversity

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024

Head of civil service and MI6 chief resign Garrick membership

Exclusive: Top civil servant Simon Case follows Richard Moore in announcing decision to quit male-only club

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024

UK’s top civil servant and head of MI6 urged to quit Garrick Club

Critics say Simon Case and Richard Moore’s membership of all-male club shows poor leadership and judgment

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2024

Garrick could admit women after barrister U-turns on club rules

Michael Beloff KC judged in 2011 that reference to ‘he’ excluded women but has now concluded opposite

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2023

Modernisation creeps on as London gentlemen’s clubs open to women

Pratt’s is the latest establishment haunt to allow female members but others are still resistant to change

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2023

‘Give members a vote on lifting ban on women joining the Garrick’, campaigners say

‘The world has changed a lot’ since the Garrick last allowed members a vote on allowing women to join, campaigners say

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2023

First images released of Al Murray as King Charles II in new West End show

The pub landlord stars alongside Mel Giedroyc and Neil Morrissey in new comic caper The Crown Jewels at the Garrick Theatre

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2023

The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

The 'perfect' Belfast pub crawl according to CAMRA NI representative

CAMRA is a voluntary consumer organisation campaigning for great beer and great pubs, across Northern Ireland

Belfast Live · Mar 4, 2023

On my radar: Katy Hessel’s cultural highlights

The art historian and broadcaster on the joys of Emma Corrin’s Orlando, and the exhibition that she has seen three times already

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2022